[3830] W0HSC NAQP Multi

[Patrick J. Korkowski]

                       1998 NCJ NORTH AMERICAN QSO PARTY
 
 
     Call used: W0HSC                                          Location: ND
 
     Category: Multi-Op          Mode: PHONE           		Power: 100W
 
     Callsign of Operator: KB0O  
 
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     KB0O & KB0VSZ (tech +)_____________________________________
 
 
     Exchanged Information: W0HSC PAT ND  
 
 
     Hours of Operation: 07:55
 
 
     band      QSOs     points    mults
     ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
     160          0         0        0
      80         20        20       13
      40        108       108       39
      20        292       292       45
      15         41        41       14
      10          0         0        0
     ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
     TOTAL      461       461      111      SCORE: 51,171
 
 
    Equipment:  1 IC-725
		3 element triband yagi @ 50' for 20,15, and 10
		Dipole @ 50' for 160, 80, and 40 

    Comments:  I wanted to demonstrate contesting to some of the 
               other members of the NDSU Amateur Radio Society today.
   	       Jason, KB0VSZ, showed up and handled most of the early
               Search and Pounce duties.  After a couple of hours he 
	       went to eat at McDonalds so I tried to run for a little bit. 
               There must not have been much ND on the air today because I 
	       had a pileup with about 5 stations calling me for a while.  The
               last 10 meter showed approximately 230 for a little bit, which is
               by far my best ever.  By the time Jason got back from
McDonalds, I
	       had made 100 Q's.  Things went downhill after I QSYed to 40 meters,
though.
               I could never get a rate going and I don't like SSB enough
	       to S&P all night through all of the non-contest stations, much less put
	       up with the characters found on 80 M.  I was seriously expecting to make
	       QSO #500 right after QSO #459.  When I realized that this was not going
	       to happen, I knew that I had to pull the plug.  Anyway, our antenna for
	       the low bands is not very good.  We have 500' of 3/4" hard-line which
	       connects to 450 ohm ladderline which connects to the dipole on the roof
               of the EE building.  There is no coupling device between the
ladder line and
	       the coax which creates a lot of loss.  I really need to fix this before 
	       the Sprint.  Also, I should've used a tape recorder during this one
so I 
	       could review how unintelligle it is when I say Pat in North Dakota.
I would
	       guess that 90% of the time that my name was miscopied, it was
miscopied at
	       either Ted or Ed.  I don't understand this.  Well, to anyone that
read all
	       of this, thanks and

	       73 DE Pat KB0O    
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
 
 
 


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